EcoControl SA, a company founded in 1988 with offices in Locarno and Lugano, is active in the fields of environmental and nature consulting, forest engineering, construction physics and renewable energy, as well as in the Minergie sector.

Particular feature of our company for more than thirty years is its inter and multidisciplinary character: the Team of collaborators consists of engineers, physicists and biologists who cover in an integrated way all the skills required in the scope of the provided consultations.

The firm also belongs entirely to its collaborators.

CAPS OF ACTIVITY

Environmental Consulting

Since 1988 we have acquired interdisciplinary environmental expertise serving the public and private sectors.

In 1988 the new Ordinance concerning the examination of the impact on the environment came into force, and our office, in collaboration with the Cantonal Services, immediately had to deal with this new area of activity with an interdisciplinary approach; the experience accumulated in the first years then allowed us to deal with and competently resolve all the environmental issues posed for example by the vast AlpTransit project in Ticino.

• Environmental Impact Reports (RIA)
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• Checklist environment
• Projects-DLL environmental works
• Environmental accompaniment large construction sites
• Water Protection
• Air Protection
• Noise and Vibration
• Soil and contaminated sites
• Waste Management

Naturalist consulting

In this area, EcoControl SA provides the services suitable for the protection and enhancement of nature.

Based on our floristic and faunal surveys on the ground and data provided by ecosystem inventories we assess the value of a given environment by providing the necessary tools for its protection and enhancement.

• Naturalistic engineering-bioengineering
• Flora-vegetation and wildlife
• Planning
• Interconnection projects
• Landscape quality projects

Forestry Engineering

Forest engineering encompasses all topics related to the forest ecosystem and the world of trees.

In the field of forest engineering, EcoControl SA provides interdisciplinary services in the fields of silviculture, ecology, dendrometry, botany, forest economics, zoology and entomology, forest pathology, engineering, genetics, forest management, xylology, and general technology.

The multidisciplinary structure of our study allows us to manage, develop, protect and perpetuate complex ecosystems such as forests, woodlands and all spontaneous or artificial plant formations, as well as generally manage, safeguard, plan and design for the benefit of the environment and the territory, the floristic and faunal heritage, the agro-silvo-pastoral chain, as well as the production and marketing of forest products.

• Natural Hazards
• Forest planning
• Forestry
• Forest roads and tracks
• Deforestation - reforestation
• Forestry surveys and assessments

Physics and energy of construction

The physics and energy of construction: a young science in construction.

The name derives from the application of the laws of (classical) physics to optimize the building elements of a construction, in relation to the external climatic and acoustic situation and internal welfare requirements. Its development is mainly related to the need to insulate buildings to reduce their energy requirements, the increased demands for thermal comfort in summer and winter, and the consequent increased complexity of building elements.

The name is derived from the laws of physics.

• Building and environmental acoustics
• Energy consulting
• Winter thermal protection
• Summer thermal protection
• Humidity protection
• Sound studies
• Asbestos and radon surveys